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March 26th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The attacks have also pushed security issues up the agenda in the midst of a
heated campaign for France’s April-May presidential election.
Merah said he had received training in Pakistan and Afghanistan and he had
been on a US “terror blacklist” banning him from US-bound flights after he
was arrested in Afghanistan and sent back to France.
The director general of the French national police, Frederic Pechenard,
defended security services Monday, saying it was easier to criticise in
hindsight.
“It’s easy now, when we have the killer’s name, to look back. It’s a bit like
the lottery: it’s easy to have the six numbers in order after the fact,” he
told RTL radio.
He said police were facing a daunting task in evaluating the risks of other
potential extremists.
“There are hundreds of young French people who go to Egypt, to Yemen, to
Pakistan to study the Koran… who are nothing more than religious,” he said.
“Amid these hundreds of people are a few potential terrorists whom we need to
work on.”
Mr Sarkozy also said Monday that France had barred influential Qatar-based
Sunni Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi from visiting the country.
In the heated atmosphere following the attacks, Qaradawi’s planned visit next
month for a congress of the Union of Islamic Organisations in France (UOIF)
was attacked by the opposition Socialists and far-right National Front.
“I told the emir of Qatar himself that this gentleman was not welcome in the
territory of the French Republic,” Sarkozy told France Info.
Qaradawi, who hosts a popular show on Al-Jazeera satellite television, backed
Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, and has launched a
fund-raising effort for the Syrian opposition.
Qaradawi, who has ties with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, has been accused of
making anti-Semitic and homophobic statements and was banned from Britain in
2008. He has been banned from entering the United States since 1999.
The International Union of Muslim Scholars, which Qaradawi heads, criticised
the decision but said it respected French sovereignty.
“We are surprised, and we admonish France for refusing to grant Sheikh Yusuf
Qaradawi a visa. He is a moderate scholar who contributed to combating
extremism,” said the union’s secretary general, Ali al-Qaradaghi.
Mr Sarkozy meanwhile
blasted as “senseless” French National Front candidate Marine Le Pen’s claims
that the Toulouse murders were linked to immigration.
Losing steam in the polls for round one of presidential elections on April 22,
Miss Le Pen on Sunday launched a virulent attack on immigration, linking it
to what she called a “green fascist” wave of Islamic fundamentalism
threatening to unfurl over France after the deaths of seven this month at
the hands of the self-styled al Qaeda killer.
The 23-year old Frenchman of Algerian descent was killed by elite French
police in a shoot-out in his apartment last Thursday after a 32-hour siege.
“How many Mohamed Merahs are there in the boats and planes that arrive in
France full of immigrants ?,” Miss Le Pen asked at a rally in Nantes,
western France.
“Mohamed Merah is perhaps only the tip of the iceberg… This is not about the
madness of one man but the advance of green fascism in our country.”
Reacting on Monday morning, Mr
Sarkozy said it was senseless to link Mr Merah to immigration as he
was French. “We can’t equate Mohamed Merah, born in France, French, to
the children of immigrants arriving by boat,” he told France Info. “He was
simply a monster.”
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